Dr. Mohammed Hankir

Dr. Mohammed Hankir

Assistant Professor, Biochemistry

Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • Mohammed Hankir and Christelle Le Foll, Central nervous system pathways targeted by amylin in the regulation of food intake, Biochimie, 229, 2025, p95 - 104Journal Article, 2025, DOI
  • Mohammed Hankir and Thomas Lutz, Novel neural pathways targeted by GLP-1R agonists and bariatric surgery, Pflugers Archi: European Journal of Physiology, 477, (2), 2025, p171 - 185Journal Article, 2025, DOI
  • Hankir, Mohammed K, Gut microbiota turn up the heat after bariatric surgery, Cell stress, 7, (10), 2023, p90â€"94Journal Article, 2023, DOI , URL
  • Chen, Jeremy Tsung-Chieh and Hu, Xiawei and Otto, Isabel U C and SchÃŒrger, Christina and von Bieberstein, Bruno Rogalla and Doppler, Kathrin and Krug, Susanne M and Hankir, Mohammed K and Blasig, Rosel and Sommer, Claudia and Brack, Alexander and Blasig, Ingolf E and Rittner, Heike L, Myelin barrier breakdown, mechanical hypersensitivity, and painfulness in polyneuropathy with claudin-12 deficiency, Neurobiology of disease, 185, 2023, p106246Journal Article, 2023, DOI , URL
  • Frick, Lukas D and Hankir, Mohammed K and Borner, Tito and Malagola, Ermanno and File, Bálint and Gero, Daniel, Novel Insights into the Physiology of Nutrient Sensing and Gut-Brain Communication in Surgical and Experimental Obesity Therapy, Obesity surgery, 33, (9), 2023, p2906â€"2916Journal Article, 2023, DOI , URL
  • Uttinger, Konstantin L and Diers, Johannes and Baum, Philip and Hankir, Mohammed and Germer, Christoph-Thomas and Wiegering, Armin, Impact of the COVID pandemic on major abdominal cancer resections in Germany: a retrospective population-based cohort study, International journal of surgery (London, England), 109, (4), 2023, p670â€"678Journal Article, 2023, DOI , URL
  • Hankir, Mohammed K and Kovatcheva-Datchary, Petia and Springer, Rebecca and Hoffmann, Annett and Vogel, Jörg and Seyfried, Florian and Arora, Tulika, Gut Microbiota Contribution to Weight-Independent Glycemic Improvements after Gastric Bypass Surgery, Microbiology spectrum, 11, (3), 2023, pe0510922Journal Article, 2023, DOI , URL
  • Kollmann, Lars and Reimer, Stanislaus and Lock, Johan Friso and Flemming, Ilona and Widder, Anna and May, Jana and Krietenstein, Laura and Gruber, Maximilian and Meining, Alexander and Hankir, Mohammed and Germer, Christoph-Thomas and Seyfried, Florian, Endoscopic vacuum therapy as a first-line treatment option for gastric leaks after bariatric surgery: evidence from 10 years of experience, Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, 19, (9), 2023, p1041â€"1048Journal Article, 2023, DOI , URL
  • Schweickert de Palma, Eva and GÃŒnnewig, Tilman and Rullmann, Michael and Luthardt, Julia and Hankir, Mohammed K and Meyer, Philipp M and Becker, Georg-Alexander and Patt, Marianne and Martin, Sarah and Hilbert, Anja and BlÃŒher, Matthias and Sabri, Osama and Hesse, Swen, Availability of Central α4β2* Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors in Human Obesity, Brain sciences, 12, (12), 2022, p1648Journal Article, 2022, DOI , URL
  • Dischinger, Ulrich and Kötzner, Laura and Kovatcheva-Datchary, Petia and Kleinschmidt, Helena and Haas, Christina and Perez, Jose and Presek, Cornelius and Koschker, Ann-Cathrin and Miras, Alexander D and Hankir, Mohammed K and Vogel, Jörg and Germer, Christoph-Thomas and Fassnacht, Martin and Herrmann, Martin J and Seyfried, Florian, Hypothalamic integrity is necessary for sustained weight loss after bariatric surgery: A prospective, cross-sectional study, Metabolism: clinical and experimental, 138, 2023, p155341Journal Article, 2023, DOI , URL
  • Griebsch, Nora-Isabell and Kern, Johanna and Hansen, Jonas and Rullmann, Michael and Luthardt, Julia and Helfmeyer, Stephanie and Dekorsy, Franziska J and Soeder, Marvin and Hankir, Mohammed K and Zientek, Franziska and Becker, Georg-Alexander and Patt, Marianne and Meyer, Philipp M and Dietrich, Arne and BlÃŒher, Matthias and Ding, Yu-Shin and Hilbert, Anja and Sabri, Osama and Hesse, Swen, Central Serotonin/Noradrenaline Transporter Availability and Treatment Success in Patients with Obesity, Brain sciences, 12, (11), 2022, p1437Journal Article, 2022, DOI , URL
  • Seyfried, Florian and Springer, Rebecca and Hoffmann, Annett and Gruber, Maximilian and Otto, Christoph and Schlegel, Nicolas and Hankir, Mohammed K, Gastric bypass surgery weight loss-independently induces gut Il-22 release in association with improved glycemic control in obese Zucker fatty rats, Metabolism open, 17, 2023, p100212Journal Article, 2023, DOI , URL
  • Hankir, Mohammed K and Hoffmann, Annett and Seyfried, Florian, Starving cancer into submission by activating BAT, Cell metabolism, 34, (10), 2022, p1428â€"1430Journal Article, 2022, DOI , URL
  • Hankir, Mohammed K, A purinergic call to arms from dying brown adipocytes, Cell stress, 6, (7), 2022, p68â€"71Journal Article, 2022, DOI , URL
  • Reimer, Stanislaus and Seyfried, Florian and Flemming, Sven and Brand, Markus and Weich, Alexander and Widder, Anna and Plaà meier, Lars and Kraus, Peter and Döring, Anna and Hering, Ilona and Hankir, Mohammed K and Meining, Alexander and Germer, Christoph-Thomas and Lock, Johan F and Groneberg, Kaja, Evolution of endoscopic vacuum therapy for upper gastrointestinal leakage over a 10-year period: a quality improvement study, Surgical endoscopy, 36, (12), 2022, p9169â€"9178Journal Article, 2022, DOI , URL
  • Widder, A and Backhaus, J and Wierlemann, A and Hering, I and Flemming, S and Hankir, M and Germer, C-T and Wiegering, A and Lock, JF and König, S and Seyfried, F, Optimizing laparoscopic training efficacy by 'deconstruction into key steps': a randomized controlled trial with novice medical students, Surgical endoscopy, 36, (12), 2022, p8726â€"8736Journal Article, 2022, DOI , URL
  • Reibetanz, Joachim and Kelm, Matthias and Uttinger, Konstantin L and Reuter, Miriam and Schlegel, Nicolas and Hankir, Mohamed and Wiegering, Verena and Germer, Christoph-Thomas and Fassnacht, Martin and Lock, Johan Friso and Wiegering, Armin, Differences in morbidity and mortality between unilateral adrenalectomy for adrenal Cushing's syndrome and bilateral adrenalectomy for therapy refractory extra-adrenal Cushing's syndrome, Langenbeck's archives of surgery, 407, (6), 2022, p2481â€"2488Journal Article, 2022, DOI , URL
  • Diers, Johannes and Acar, Laura and Wagner, Johanna C and Baum, Philip and Hankir, Mohammed and Flemming, Sven and Kastner, Carolin and Germer, Christoph-Thomas and L'hoest, Helmut and Marschall, Ursula and Lock, Johan Friso and Wiegering, Armin, Cancer diagnosis is one quarter lower than the expected cancer incidence in the first year of COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: A retrospective register-based cohort study, Cancer communications (London, England), 42, (7), 2022, p673â€"676Journal Article, 2022, DOI , URL
  • Reimer, Stanislaus and Lock, Johan F and Flemming, Sven and Weich, Alexander and Widder, Anna and Plaà meier, Lars and Döring, Anna and Hering, Ilona and Hankir, Mohammed K and Meining, Alexander and Germer, Christoph-Thomas and Groneberg, Kaja and Seyfried, Florian, Endoscopic Management of Large Leakages After Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, Frontiers in surgery, 9, 2022, p885244Journal Article, 2022, DOI , URL
  • Diers, Johannes and Baum, Philip and Lehmann, Kai and Uttinger, Konstatin and Baumann, Nikolas and Pietryga, Sebastian and Hankir, Mohammed and Matthes, Niels and Lock, Johann F and Germer, Christoph-Thomas and Wiegering, Armin, Disproportionately high failure to rescue rates after resection for colorectal cancer in the geriatric patient population - A nationwide study, Cancer medicine, 11, (22), 2022, p4256â€"4264Journal Article, 2022, DOI , URL
  • Hankir, Mohammed Khair and Bruneau, Michael, Periphery-Brain Interactions and Leptin in the Regulation of Whole-Body Energy Metabolism, Nutrients, 14, (8), 2022, p1594Journal Article, 2022, DOI , URL
  • Hendricks, Anne and Meir, Michael and Hankir, Mohammed and Lenschow, Christina and Germer, Christoph-Thomas and Schneider, Michael and Wiegering, Armin and Schlegel, Nicolas, Suppurative thyroiditis caused by ingested fish bone in the thyroid gland: a case report on its diagnostics and surgical therapy, BMC surgery, 22, (1), 2022, p92Journal Article, 2022, DOI , URL
  • Hering, Ilona and Dörries, Luise and Flemming, Sven and Krietenstein, Laura and Koschker, Ann-Kathrin and Fassnacht, Martin and Germer, Christoph-Thomas and Hankir, Mohammed K and Seyfried, Florian, Impact of preoperative weight loss achieved by gastric balloon on peri- and postoperative outcomes of bariatric surgery in super-obese patients: a retrospective matched-pair analysis, Langenbeck's archives of surgery, 407, (5), 2022, p1873â€"1879Journal Article, 2022, DOI , URL
  • Dischinger, Ulrich and Heckel, Tobias and Bischler, Thorsten and Hasinger, Julia and Königsrainer, Malina and Schmitt-Böhrer, Angelika and Otto, Christoph and Fassnacht, Martin and Seyfried, Florian and Hankir, Mohammed Khair, Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Caloric Restriction but Not Gut Hormone-Based Treatments Profoundly Impact the Hypothalamic Transcriptome in Obese Rats, Nutrients, 14, (1), 2021, p116Journal Article, 2021, DOI , URL
  • Hankir, Mohammed K, Building and breaking the gut barrier with bariatric surgery, Cell stress, 6, (2), 2022, p17â€"20Journal Article, 2022, DOI , URL
  • Uttinger, Konstantin L and Diers, Johannes and Baum, Philip and Pietryga, Sebastian and Baumann, Nikolas and Hankir, Mohamed and Germer, Christoph-Thomas and Wiegering, Armin, Mortality, complications and failure to rescue after surgery for esophageal, gastric, pancreatic and liver cancer patients based on minimum caseloads set by the German Cancer Society, European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology, 48, (4), 2022, p924â€"932Journal Article, 2022, DOI , URL
  • Kastner, Carolin and Hendricks, Anne and Deinlein, Hanna and Hankir, Mohammed and Germer, Christoph-Thomas and Schmidt, Stefanie and Wiegering, Armin, Organoid Models for Cancer Research-From Bed to Bench Side and Back, Cancers, 13, (19), 2021, p4812Journal Article, 2021, DOI , URL
  • Flemming, Sven and Hankir, Mohammed K and Kusan, Simon and Krone, Manuel and Anger, Friedrich and Germer, Christoph-Thomas and Wiegering, Armin, Safety of elective abdominal and vascular surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective single-center study, European journal of medical research, 26, (1), 2021, p112Journal Article, 2021, DOI , URL
  • Meir, Michael and Maurus, Katja and Kuper, Jochen and Hankir, Mohammed and Wardelmann, Eva and Rosenwald, Andreas and Germer, Christoph-Thomas and Wiegering, Armin, The novel KIT exon 11 germline mutation K558N is associated with gastrointestinal stromal tumor, mastocytosis, and seminoma development, Genes, chromosomes & cancer, 60, (12), 2021, p827â€"832Journal Article, 2021, DOI , URL
  • Seyfried, Florian and Hoffmann, Annett and Rullmann, Michael and Schlegel, Nicolas and Otto, Christoph and Hankir, Mohammed K, Weight loss from caloric restriction vs Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery differentially regulates systemic and portal vein GDF15 levels in obese Zucker fatty rats, Physiology & behavior, 240, 2021, p113534Journal Article, 2021, DOI , URL
  • Plassmeier, Lars and Hankir, Mohammed K and Seyfried, Florian, Impact of Excess Body Weight on Postsurgical Complications, Visceral medicine, 37, (4), 2021, p287â€"297Journal Article, 2021, DOI , URL
  • Hoffmann, Annett and Ebert, Thomas and Hankir, Mohammed K and Flehmig, Gesine and Klöting, Nora and Jessnitzer, Beate and Lössner, Ulrike and Stumvoll, Michael and BlÃŒher, Matthias and Fasshauer, Mathias and Tönjes, Anke and Miehle, Konstanze and Kralisch, Susan, Leptin Improves Parameters of Brown Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis in Lipodystrophic Mice, Nutrients, 13, (8), 2021, p2499Journal Article, 2021, DOI , URL
  • Flemming, Sven and Lock, Johan F and Hankir, Mohammed and Reimer, Stanislaus and Petritsch, Bernhard and Germer, Christoph-Thomas and Seyfried, Florian, Successful management of therapy-refractory pseudoachalasia after Ivor Lewis esophagectomy by bypassing colonic pull-up: A case report, World journal of clinical cases, 9, (16), 2021, p3971â€"3978Journal Article, 2021, DOI , URL
  • Hankir, Mohammed K and Rotzinger, Laura and Nordbeck, Arno and Corteville, Caroline and Dischinger, Ulrich and Knop, Juna-Lisa and Hoffmann, Annett and Otto, Christoph and Seyfried, Florian, Leptin Receptors Are Not Required for Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery to Normalize Energy and Glucose Homeostasis in Rats, Nutrients, 13, (5), 2021, p1544Journal Article, 2021, DOI , URL
  • Chen, Jiesi and Haase, Nadine and Haange, Sven-Bastiaan and Sucher, Robert and MÃŒnzker, Julia and JÀger, Elisabeth and Schischke, Kristin and Seyfried, Florian and von Bergen, Martin and Hankir, Mohammed K and KrÃŒgel, Ute and Fenske, Wiebke K, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass contributes to weight loss-independent improvement in hypothalamic inflammation and leptin sensitivity through gut-microglia-neuron-crosstalk, Molecular metabolism, 48, 2021, p101214Journal Article, 2021, DOI , URL
  • Hankir, Mohammed and Rotzinger, Laura and Nordbeck, Arno and Corteville, Caroline and Hoffmann, Annett and Otto, Christoph and Seyfried, Florian, Intact Leptin Receptor Signalling is not Required for the Sustained Weight Loss and Appetite Suppression Induced by Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery, Preprints.org, 2021Journal Article, 2021, DOI , URL
  • Dischinger, Ulrich and Hasinger, Julia and Königsrainer, Malina and Corteville, Carolin and Otto, Christoph and Fassnacht, Martin and Hankir, Mohamed and Seyfried, Florian Johannes David, Toward a Medical Gastric Bypass: Chronic Feeding Studies With Liraglutide + PYY<sub>3-36</sub> Combination Therapy in Diet-Induced Obese Rats, Frontiers in endocrinology, 11, 2020, p598843Journal Article, 2020, DOI , URL
  • Seyfried, Florian and Phetcharaburanin, Jutarop and Glymenaki, Maria and Nordbeck, Arno and Hankir, Mohammed and Nicholson, Jeremy K and Holmes, Elaine and Marchesi, Julian R and Li, Jia V, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery in Zucker rats induces bacterial and systemic metabolic changes independent of caloric restriction-induced weight loss, Gut microbes, 13, (1), 2021, p1â€"20Journal Article, 2021, DOI , URL
  • Grundmann, Rico and Rullmann, Michael and Luthardt, Julia and Zientek, Franziska and Becker, Georg-Alexander and Patt, Marianne and Hankir, Mohammed K and BlÃŒher, Matthias and Sabri, Osama and Hesse, Swen, Higher HbA1c levels associate with lower hippocampal serotonin transporter availability in non-diabetic adults with obesity, Scientific reports, 10, (1), 2020, p21383Journal Article, 2020, DOI , URL
  • Hankir, Mohammed K, A sympathetic gut connection drives the metabolic benefits of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, Cell stress, 4, (12), 2020, p265â€"269Journal Article, 2020, DOI , URL
  • Matthes, Niels and Diers, Johannes and Schlegel, Nicolas and Hankir, Mohammed and Haubitz, Imme and Germer, Christoph-Thomas and Wiegering, Armin, Validation of MTL30 as a quality indicator for colorectal surgery, PloS one, 15, (8), 2020, pe0238473Journal Article, 2020, DOI , URL
  • Hintschich, Constantin A and Wenzel, JÃŒrgen J and Hummel, Thomas and Hankir, Mohammed K and KÃŒhnel, Thomas and Vielsmeier, Veronika and Bohr, Christopher, Psychophysical tests reveal impaired olfaction but preserved gustation in COVID-19 patients, International forum of allergy & rhinology, 10, (9), 2020, p1105â€"1107Journal Article, 2020, DOI , URL
  • Flemming, S and Hankir, M and Hering, I and Meybohm, P and Krone, M and Weissbrich, B and Germer, CT and Wiegering, A, Abdominal fluid samples (negative for SARS-CoV-2) from a critically unwell patient with respiratory COVID-19, The British journal of surgery, 107, (8), 2020, pe259â€"e260Journal Article, 2020, DOI , URL
  • Hankir, Mohammed K and Seyfried, Florian, Do Bariatric Surgeries Enhance Brown/Beige Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis?, Frontiers in endocrinology, 11, 2020, p275Journal Article, 2020, DOI , URL
  • Hankir, Mohammed K and Seyfried, Florian, Partial Leptin Reduction: An Emerging Weight Loss Paradigm, Trends in endocrinology and metabolism: TEM, 31, (6), 2020, p395â€"397Journal Article, 2020, DOI , URL
  • Flemming, S and Hankir, M and Ernestus, R-I and Seyfried, F and Germer, C-T and Meybohm, P and Wurmb, T and Vogel, U and Wiegering, A, Surgery in times of COVID-19-recommendations for hospital and patient management, Langenbeck's archives of surgery, 405, (3), 2020, p359â€"364Journal Article, 2020, DOI , URL
  • Haange, Sven-Bastiaan and Jehmlich, Nico and KrÃŒgel, Ute and Hintschich, Constantin and Wehrmann, Dorothee and Hankir, Mohammed and Seyfried, Florian and Froment, Jean and HÃŒbschmann, Thomas and MÃŒller, Susann and Wissenbach, Dirk K and Kang, Kang and Buettner, Christian and Panagiotou, Gianni and Noll, Matthias and Rolle-Kampczyk, Ulrike and Fenske, Wiebke and von Bergen, Martin, Gastric bypass surgery in a rat model alters the community structure and functional composition of the intestinal microbiota independently of weight loss, Microbiome, 8, (1), 2020, p13Journal Article, 2020, DOI , URL
  • Hankir, Mohammed K and Rullmann, Michael and Seyfried, Florian and Preusser, Sven and Poppitz, Sindy and Heba, Stefanie and Gousias, Konstantinos and Hoyer, Jana and SchÃŒtz, Tatjana and Dietrich, Arne and MÃŒller, Karsten and Pleger, Burkhard, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery progressively alters radiologic measures of hypothalamic inflammation in obese patients, JCI insight, 4, (19), 2019, p131329Journal Article, 2019, DOI , URL
  • Hankir, Mohammed K and Al-Bas, Siham and Rullmann, Michael and Chakaroun, Rima and Seyfried, Florian and Pleger, Burkhard, Homeostatic, reward and executive brain functions after gastric bypass surgery, Appetite, 146, 2020, p104419Journal Article, 2020, DOI , URL
  • Rullmann, Michael and Preusser, Sven and Poppitz, Sindy and Heba, Stefanie and Gousias, Konstantinos and Hoyer, Jana and SchÃŒtz, Tatjana and Dietrich, Arne and MÃŒller, Karsten and Hankir, Mohammed K and Pleger, Burkhard, Adiposity Related Brain Plasticity Induced by Bariatric Surgery, Frontiers in human neuroscience, 13, 2019, p290Journal Article, 2019, DOI , URL
  • Dischinger, Ulrich and Corteville, Caroline and Otto, Christoph and Fassnacht, Martin and Seyfried, Florian and Hankir, Mohammed K, GLP-1 and PYY<sub>3-36</sub> reduce high-fat food preference additively after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass in diet-induced obese rats, Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, 15, (9), 2019, p1483â€"1492Journal Article, 2019, DOI , URL
  • Seyfried, Florian and Hankir, Mohammed K, Could de-stressing the brain be the solution for long-term weight loss?, Cell stress, 3, (2), 2019, p29â€"37Journal Article, 2019, DOI , URL
  • Bankoglu, Ezgi Eyluel and Arnold, Charlotte and Hering, Ilona and Hankir, Mohammed and Seyfried, Florian and Stopper, Helga, Decreased Chromosomal Damage in Lymphocytes of Obese Patients After Bariatric Surgery, Scientific reports, 8, (1), 2018, p11195Journal Article, 2018, DOI , URL
  • Hankir, Mohammed K and Klingenspor, Martin, Brown adipocyte glucose metabolism: a heated subject, EMBO reports, 19, (9), 2018, pe46404Journal Article, 2018, DOI , URL
  • Hankir, Mohammed K and Seyfried, Florian and Miras, Alexander D and Cowley, Michael A, Brain Feeding Circuits after Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass, Trends in endocrinology and metabolism: TEM, 29, (4), 2018, p218â€"237Journal Article, 2018, DOI , URL
  • Drabe, M and Rullmann, M and Luthardt, J and Boettcher, Y and Regenthal, R and Ploetz, T and Becker, GA and Patt, M and Schinke, C and Bergh, FT and Zientek, F and Hilbert, A and Bresch, A and Fenske, W and Hankir, MK and Sabri, O and Hesse, S, Serotonin transporter gene promoter methylation status correlates with in vivo prefrontal 5-HTT availability and reward function in human obesity, Translational psychiatry, 7, (7), 2017, pe1167Journal Article, 2017, DOI , URL
  • Hesse, Swen and MÃŒller, Ulrich and Rullmann, Michael and Luthardt, Julia and Bresch, Anke and Becker, Georg-Alexander and Zientek, Franziska and Patt, Marianne and Meyer, Philipp M and BlÃŒher, Matthias and Strauà , Maria and Fenske, Wiebke and Hankir, Mohammed and Ding, Yu-Shin and Hilbert, Anja and Sabri, Osama, The association between in vivo central noradrenaline transporter availability and trait impulsivity, Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging, 267, 2017, p9â€"14Journal Article, 2017, DOI , URL
  • Hankir, Mohammed K and Patt, Marianne and Patt, Jörg T W and Becker, Georg A and Rullmann, Michael and Kranz, Mathias and Deuther-Conrad, Winnie and Schischke, Kristin and Seyfried, Florian and Brust, Peter and Hesse, Swen and Sabri, Osama and KrÃŒgel, Ute and Fenske, Wiebke K, Suppressed Fat Appetite after Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery Associates with Reduced Brain ÎŒ-opioid Receptor Availability in Diet-Induced Obese Male Rats, Frontiers in neuroscience, 10, 2016, p620Journal Article, 2016, DOI , URL
  • Weiner, Juliane and Hankir, Mohammed and Heiker, John T and Fenske, Wiebke and Krause, Kerstin, Thyroid hormones and browning of adipose tissue, Molecular and cellular endocrinology, 458, 2017, p156â€"159Journal Article, 2017, DOI , URL
  • Hesse, Swen and Becker, Georg-Alexander and Rullmann, Michael and Bresch, Anke and Luthardt, Julia and Hankir, Mohammed K and Zientek, Franziska and Reià ig, Georg and Patt, Marianne and Arelin, Katrin and Lobsien, Donald and MÃŒller, Ulrich and Baldofski, S and Meyer, Philipp M and BlÃŒher, Matthias and Fasshauer, Mathias and Fenske, Wiebke K and Stumvoll, Michael and Hilbert, Anja and Ding, Yu-Shin and Sabri, Osama, Central noradrenaline transporter availability in highly obese, non-depressed individuals, European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, 44, (6), 2017, p1056â€"1064Journal Article, 2017, DOI , URL
  • Hankir, Mohammed K and Kranz, Mathias and Keipert, Susanne and Weiner, Juliane and Andreasen, Sille G and Kern, Matthias and Patt, Marianne and Klöting, Nora and Heiker, John T and Brust, Peter and Hesse, Swen and Jastroch, Martin and Fenske, Wiebke K, Dissociation Between Brown Adipose Tissue <sup>18</sup>F-FDG Uptake and Thermogenesis in Uncoupling Protein 1-Deficient Mice, Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, 58, (7), 2017, p1100â€"1103Journal Article, 2017, DOI , URL
  • Hankir, Mohammed K and Seyfried, Florian and Hintschich, Constantin A and Diep, Thi-Ai and Kleberg, Karen and Kranz, Mathias and Deuther-Conrad, Winnie and Tellez, Luis A and Rullmann, Michael and Patt, Marianne and Teichert, Jens and Hesse, Swen and Sabri, Osama and Brust, Peter and Hansen, Harald S and de Araujo, Ivan E and KrÃŒgel, Ute and Fenske, Wiebke K, Gastric Bypass Surgery Recruits a Gut PPAR-α-Striatal D1R Pathway to Reduce Fat Appetite in Obese Rats, Cell metabolism, 25, (2), 2017, p335â€"344Journal Article, 2017, DOI , URL
  • Weiner, Juliane and Kranz, Mathias and Klöting, Nora and Kunath, Anne and Steinhoff, Karen and Rijntjes, Eddy and Köhrle, Josef and Zeisig, Vilia and Hankir, Mohammed and Gebhardt, Claudia and Deuther-Conrad, Winnie and Heiker, John T and Kralisch, Susan and Stumvoll, Michael and BlÃŒher, Matthias and Sabri, Osama and Hesse, Swen and Brust, Peter and Tönjes, Anke and Krause, Kerstin, Thyroid hormone status defines brown adipose tissue activity and browning of white adipose tissues in mice, Scientific reports, 6, 2016, p38124Journal Article, 2016, DOI , URL
  • Hankir, Mohammed K and Kranz, Mathias and Gnad, Thorsten and Weiner, Juliane and Wagner, Sally and Deuther-Conrad, Winnie and Bronisch, Felix and Steinhoff, Karen and Luthardt, Julia and Klöting, Nora and Hesse, Swen and Seibyl, John P and Sabri, Osama and Heiker, John T and BlÃŒher, Matthias and Pfeifer, Alexander and Brust, Peter and Fenske, Wiebke K, A novel thermoregulatory role for PDE10A in mouse and human adipocytes, EMBO molecular medicine, 8, (7), 2016, p796â€"812Journal Article, 2016, DOI , URL
  • Hankir, Mohammed K and Cowley, Michael A and Fenske, Wiebke K, A BAT-Centric Approach to the Treatment of Diabetes: Turn on the Brain, Cell metabolism, 24, (1), 2016, p31â€"40Journal Article, 2016, DOI , URL
  • Seyfried, Florian and Miras, Alexander D and Rotzinger, Laura and Nordbeck, Arno and Corteville, Caroline and Li, Jia V and Schlegel, Nicolas and Hankir, Mohammed and Fenske, Wiebke and Otto, Christoph and Jurowich, Christian, Gastric Bypass-Related Effects on Glucose Control, β Cell Function and Morphology in the Obese Zucker Rat, Obesity surgery, 26, (6), 2016, p1228â€"1236Journal Article, 2016, DOI , URL
  • Hesse, Swen and Rullmann, Michael and Luthardt, Julia and Winter, Karsten and Hankir, Mohammed K and Becker, Georg-Alexander and Zientek, Franziska and Reissig, Georg and Regenthal, Ralf and Drabe, Mandy and Schinke, Christian and Bresch, Anke and Arelin, Katrin and Lobsien, Donald and Patt, Marianne and Meyer, Philipp M and Fasshauer, Mathias and Fenske, Wiebke K and BlÃŒher, Matthias and Stumvoll, Michael and Sabri, Osama, Central serotonin transporter availability in highly obese individuals compared with non-obese controls: A [(11)C] DASB positron emission tomography study, European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, 43, (6), 2016, p1096â€"1104Journal Article, 2016, DOI , URL
  • Dabrowska, Aleksandra and Venero, Jose Luis and Iwasawa, Ryota and Hankir, Mohammed-Khair and Rahman, Sunniyat and Boobis, Alan and Hajji, Nabil, PGC-1α controls mitochondrial biogenesis and dynamics in lead-induced neurotoxicity, Aging, 7, (9), 2015, p629â€"647Journal Article, 2015, DOI , URL
  • Horstmann, A and Fenske, WK and Hankir, MK, Argument for a non-linear relationship between severity of human obesity and dopaminergic tone, Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 16, (10), 2015, p821â€"830Journal Article, 2015, DOI , URL
  • Hankir, Mohammed K and Bronisch, Felix and Hintschich, Constantin and KrÃŒgel, Ute and Seyfried, Florian and Fenske, Wiebke K, Differential effects of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery on brown and beige adipose tissue thermogenesis, Metabolism: clinical and experimental, 64, (10), 2015, p1240â€"1249Journal Article, 2015, DOI , URL
  • Hankir, Mohammed K and Ashrafian, Hutan and Hesse, Swen and Horstmann, Annette and Fenske, Wiebke K, Distinctive striatal dopamine signaling after dieting and gastric bypass, Trends in endocrinology and metabolism: TEM, 26, (5), 2015, p223â€"230Journal Article, 2015, DOI , URL
  • Smith, Mark A and Katsouri, Loukia and Irvine, Elaine E and Hankir, Mohammed K and Pedroni, Silvia M A and Voshol, Peter J and Gordon, Matthew W and Choudhury, Agharul I and Woods, Angela and Vidal-Puig, Antonio and Carling, David and Withers, Dominic J, Ribosomal S6K1 in POMC and AgRP Neurons Regulates Glucose Homeostasis but Not Feeding Behavior in Mice, Cell reports, 11, (3), 2015, p335â€"343Journal Article, 2015, DOI , URL
  • Frost, Gary and Sleeth, Michelle L and Sahuri-Arisoylu, Meliz and Lizarbe, Blanca and Cerdan, Sebastian and Brody, Leigh and Anastasovska, Jelena and Ghourab, Samar and Hankir, Mohammed and Zhang, Shuai and Carling, David and Swann, Jonathan R and Gibson, Glenn and Viardot, Alexander and Morrison, Douglas and Louise Thomas, E and Bell, Jimmy D, The short-chain fatty acid acetate reduces appetite via a central homeostatic mechanism, Nature communications, 5, 2014, p3611Journal Article, 2014, DOI , URL
  • Steinhoff, Karen G and Hankir, M and Krause, K and Tönjes, A and Fenske, WK and Sabri, O and Hesse, S, Interaction of thyroid hormone with brown adipose tissue. Lessons learned from PET-CT, Nuklearmedizin. Nuclear medicine, 54, (3), 2015, p82â€"87Journal Article, 2015, DOI , URL
  • Hankir, Ahmed and Hankir, Mohammed and Zaman, Rashid, Should Ramadan be prescribed after Christmas? Obesity in the healthcare profession and the health benefits of fasting, BMJ case reports, 2014, 2014, pbcr2013202704Journal Article, 2014, DOI , URL
  • Khavandi, Kaivan and Brownrigg, Jack and Hankir, Mohammed and Sood, Harpreet and Younis, Naveed and Worth, Joy and Greenstein, Adam and Soran, Handrean and Wierzbicki, Anthony and Goldsmith, David J, Interrupting the natural history of diabetes mellitus: lifestyle, pharmacological and surgical strategies targeting disease progression, Current vascular pharmacology, 12, (1), 2014, p155â€"167Journal Article, 2014, DOI , URL
  • Anastasovska, Jelena and Arora, Tulika and Sanchez Canon, Gina J and Parkinson, James R C and Touhy, Kieran and Gibson, Glen R and Nadkarni, Nachiket A and So, Po-Wah and Goldstone, Anthony P and Thomas, E Louise and Hankir, Mohammed K and Van Loo, Jan and Modi, Neena and Bell, Jimmy D and Frost, Gary, Fermentable carbohydrate alters hypothalamic neuronal activity and protects against the obesogenic environment, Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.), 20, (5), 2012, p1016â€"1023Journal Article, 2012, DOI , URL
  • Hankir, Mohammed and Bueter, Marco and Gsell, Willy and Seyfried, Florian and Khalil, Magdy and Khalil, Magdy and Smith, Kirsty L and Bloom, Steve R and Bell, Jimmy D and le Roux, Carel W, Increased energy expenditure in gastric bypass rats is not caused by activated brown adipose tissue, Obesity facts, 5, (3), 2012, p349â€"358Journal Article, 2012, DOI , URL
  • Hankir, MK and Parkinson, J R C and Minnion, JS and Addison, ML and Bloom, SR and Bell, JD, Peptide YY 3-36 and pancreatic polypeptide differentially regulate hypothalamic neuronal activity in mice in vivo as measured by manganese-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging, Journal of neuroendocrinology, 23, (4), 2011, p371â€"380Journal Article, 2011, DOI , URL
  • Kuo, Yu-Ting and So, Po-Wah and Parkinson, James R and Yu, Wei Sheng and Hankir, Mohammad and Herlihy, Amy H and Goldstone, Anthony P and Frost, Gary S and Wasserfall, Clive and Bell, Jimmy D, The combined effects on neuronal activation and blood-brain barrier permeability of time and n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in mice, as measured in vivo using MEMRI, NeuroImage, 50, (4), 2010, p1384â€"1391Journal Article, 2010, DOI , URL
  • Wit, Magdalena and Trujillo-Viera, Jonathan and Strohmeyer, Akim and Klingenspor, Martin and Hankir, Mohammed and Sumara, Grzegorz, When fat meets the gut-focus on intestinal lipid handling in metabolic health and disease, EMBO molecular medicine, 14, (5), 2022, pe14742Journal Article, 2022, DOI , URL
  • Chen, Jeremy Tsung-Chieh and Schmidt, Lea and SchÃŒrger, Christina and Hankir, Mohammed K and Krug, Susanne M and Rittner, Heike L, Netrin-1 as a Multitarget Barrier Stabilizer in the Peripheral Nerve after Injury, International journal of molecular sciences, 22, (18), 2021, p10090Journal Article, 2021, DOI , URL
  • Soeder, J Marvin and Luthardt, Julia and Rullmann, Michael and Becker, Georg A and Hankir, Mohammed K and Patt, Marianne and Meyer, Philipp M and SchÃŒtz, Tatjana and Ding, Yu-Shin and Hilbert, Anja and Dietrich, Arne and Sabri, Osama and Hesse, Swen, Central Noradrenergic Neurotransmission and Weight Loss 6 Months After Gastric Bypass Surgery in Patients with Severe Obesity, Obesity surgery, 31, (11), 2021, p4868â€"4876Journal Article, 2021, DOI , URL
  • Trujillo-Viera, Jonathan and El-Merahbi, Rabih and Schmidt, Vanessa and Karwen, Till and Loza-Valdes, Angel and Strohmeyer, Akim and Reuter, Saskia and Noh, Minhee and Wit, Magdalena and Hawro, Izabela and Mocek, Sabine and Fey, Christina and Mayer, Alexander E and Löffler, Mona C and Wilhelmi, Ilka and Metzger, Marco and Ishikawa, Eri and Yamasaki, Sho and Rau, Monika and Geier, Andreas and Hankir, Mohammed and Seyfried, Florian and Klingenspor, Martin and Sumara, Grzegorz, Protein Kinase D2 drives chylomicron-mediated lipid transport in the intestine and promotes obesity, EMBO molecular medicine, 13, (5), 2021, pe13548Journal Article, 2021, DOI , URL
  • Hankir, Mohammed K and Seyfried, Florian and Schellinger, Isabel N and Schlegel, Nicolas and Arora, Tulika, Leaky Gut as a Potential Culprit for the Paradoxical Dysglycemic Response to Gastric Bypass-Associated Ileal Microbiota, Metabolites, 11, (3), 2021, p153Journal Article, 2021, DOI , URL
  • Hankir, Mohammed K and Langseder, Theresa and Bankoglu, Ezgi Eyluel and Ghoreishi, Yalda and Dischinger, Ulrich and Kurlbaum, Max and Kroiss, Matthias and Otto, Christoph and le Roux, Carel W and Arora, Tulika and Seyfried, Florian and Schlegel, Nicolas, Simulating the Post-gastric Bypass Intestinal Microenvironment Uncovers a Barrier-Stabilizing Role for FXR, iScience, 23, (12), 2020, p101777Journal Article, 2020, DOI , URL
  • Hankir, Mohammed K, Loading and firing the brown adipocyte, Adipocyte, 7, (1), 2018, p4â€"11Journal Article, 2018, DOI , URL
  • Hankir, Mohammed K and Parkinson, James R and Bloom, Stephen R and Bell, Jimmy D, The effects of glutamate receptor agonists and antagonists on mouse hypothalamic and hippocampal neuronal activity shown through manganese enhanced MRI, NeuroImage, 59, (2), 2012, p968â€"978Journal Article, 2012, DOI , URL
  • Mohammed Hankir, Creating a picture of brown fat with creatine-CEST, Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism, 36, (2), 2025, p102 - 104Journal Article, DOI

Research Expertise

Peripheral nervous system, Endocrinology, Neurosciences, Systems biology, Gastroenterology and hepatology, Cell metabolism, Nutritional science, Central nervous system, Medical biochemistry - proteins and peptides (incl. medical proteomics), Nutrition and dietetics, Cell neurochemistry, Signal transduction, Medical biochemistry - amino acids and metabolites, Nuclear medicine,

Recognition

  • Trinity Biochemical Society